Pluralsight Authoring – Upcoming Course
I am super excited to announce that I have recently been accepted as an author for Pluralsight.
My audition was on Monitoring AlwaysOn Availability Groups and was accepted on the...
2015-08-29
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Anthony Nocentino Blog
Monitoring Availability Groups with Redgate SQL Monitor
In previous posts here and here we discussed AlwaysOn Availability Group replication latency and monitoring concepts, specifically the importance of monitoring the...
2015-06-17
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Monitoring Availability Groups with Redgate SQL Monitor
In previous posts here and here we discussed AlwaysOn Availability Group replication latency and monitoring concepts, specifically the importance of monitoring the send_queue and redo_queue. In this post I’m going to...
2015-06-17
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When was your last database backup?
Its pretty often that you have to sit down at a SQL Server and need sort out what the backup...
2015-06-10
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When was your last database backup?
Its pretty often that you have to sit down at a SQL Server and need sort out what the backup situation is. One of the first things that I...
2015-06-10
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Immersed in SQL Server at SQLskills
Over the last two years I have had the pleasure of attending all three SQLskills Immersion Event classes. This training...
2015-05-16
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Immersed in SQL Server at SQLskills
Over the last two years I have had the pleasure of attending all three SQLskills Immersion Event classes. This training is second to none in its quality and intensity....
2015-05-16
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Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 2 – The implementation
In this post we are going to show the implementation of a PowerShell script using SMO to move data between filegroups...
2015-05-06 (first published: 2015-04-28)
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Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 2 – The implementation
In this post we are going to show the implementation of a PowerShell script using SMO to move data between filegroups on SQL Server. This article is the second of our...
2015-04-28
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Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 1 – Database Structures
Why is moving data between filegroups hard?
****As a consultant its common to walk into a customer site and find databases that are contained in one very large file. For...
2015-04-21
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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